sign in sign up
<<
Home , Airgram, ANZUS, Belgian Socialist Party, Deputy chief of mission, Diplomacy, Food for Peace

and Abbreviations

This list includes most of the acronyms and abbreviations that occur throughout this oral history collection. Researchers also may wish to consult International Acronyms, Initialisms & Abbreviations Dictionary (Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Company, ISSN: 0743-0523) for a more comprehensive listing.

NOTE: An asterisk (*) indicates an office that is a part of the Department of State.

A

A-100: Basic FSO Training Course

AA: Office of Analysis for Africa*; also Assistant Administrator of

AAA: Agricultural Adjustment Act

AACS: Army Airways Communications System; also Army Air Force Communications

AAFLI: Asian-American Free Labor Institute

AAI: African-American Institute

AALC: African-American Labor Center

AAFSW: Association of American Foreign Women

AAPSO: Afro-Asian Pioneer Solidarity Organization

ABCC: Association of British Chambers of Commerce

ABVV: Algemeen Belgish Vakverbord (Belgian General Federation of Labor)

ACABQ: Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions ()

ACDA: United States and Disarmament Agency

ACP Countries: Refers to the 66 developing countries of Africa, the , and the Pacific

ACW: Algemeen Christelijk Werkersverbond (Christian Labor Movement) -

The | American Memory Frontline : The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training ADB: African Development Bank; also

ADC: Advanced Developing Countries

ADMIN: Administrative Office (at a foreign post)

ADST: Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training

AECB: Arms Export Control Board

AEI: American Enterprise Institute

AEP: Extraordinary and

AF: Bureau of African Affairs*

AFC: Office of Central African Affairs*

AFDB: African Development Bank

AFE: Office of East African Affairs*

AFGE: American Federation of Employees

AFM: American Family Member

AFRN: Air Force Reserve News Service

AFS: American Foreign Service; also American Field School

AFSA: American Foreign Service Association

AGR: Agricultural Office (at a foreign service post)

AGS: Office of German, Austrian, and Swiss Affairs*

AHEPA: American Hellenic Educational Foundation

AID: Agency for International Development

AIFLD: American Institute for Free Labor Development

AIP: Agence Internationale de Press (French International Press Agency)

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training

AIPAC: American-Israeli Political Action Committee

AIRATT: United States Air Attache (at a foreign service post)

ALUSNA: United States Naval Attache or Attache Office (at a foreign service post)

AMACO: American-Arab Oil Company

AMF: Allied Mobile Force; also

ANC: African National Congress

ANZ: Office of and Affairs*

ANZUS PACT: Pacific Security between Australia, New Zealand, and the United States

AO: Office for American Outreach*

APEC: Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation

APRA: American Petroleum Refiners Association; also Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana ()

ARA: Bureau of Inter-American Affairs* (originally American Affairs)

ARAMCO: Arabian-American Oil Company

ARMATT: Attache (at a foreign service post)

ARN: , , Affairs*

ARVN: Armée de la République du Viêt-nam (Army of the of , i.e., South Vietnamese Army)

ARP: , , , , , U.A.E., Affairs*

AS: Area Studies

ASEAN: Association of Southeast Asian Nations

AT: Administrative Training

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training

ATAF: Allied Tactical Air Force

ATT: Office of Agricultural and Textile Trade Affairs*

AUB: of Beirut

AUC: American University of Cairo

AVLOS: Automated Visa Lookout System

AWACS: Airborne Warning and Control System

B

BALPA: Balance of Payments Program (A United States Government cost-cutting program at foreign service posts)

BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation

BCLTV: Office of Burma, , , and Vietnam Affairs*

BEX: Board of Examiners

BHN: Basic Human Needs

BIOT: British Territory

BIRPI: Bureaux Internationaux pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle (International Bureau for the Protection of Intellectual Property)

BLA: Office of Bilateral Affairs

BPAO: Branch Public Affairs Office; also Branch Public Affairs Officer (at a foreign service post other than an embassy or mission, i.e., )

BPO: British Post Office

BSP: Belgische Socialistische Partij (Belgian ); also Bayerische Staatspartei (Bavarian State Party)

BTU: British Thermal Unit

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training BTUM: Bustamante Trade Union Movement

C

C-20: Committee of 20

CA: Bureau of Consular Affairs*; also Career Ambassador

CADA: Cooperative Action for Development in Africa (later CDA)

CAEM: Centro de Altos Estudios Militares (Center of Advanced Military Studies, Peru), also Conseil D'Assistance Économique Mutuelle (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance)

CAN: Office of Canadian Affairs*

CAO: Cultural Affairs Officer; also Cultural Affairs Office (at a foreign service post)

CAMO: Consolidated Administrative Management Organization

CAP: Common Agricultural Policy (of the European Community -- now Union)

CASA: Office of Caucasus and Security Affairs; also Compañia de Aviacio, S.A. (Spanish aircraft manufacturer)

CASOC: California Standard Oil Company

CASP: Compagnie Africaine

CAT: Conventional Arms Transfer

CBMs: Confidence-Building Measures

CCA: Office of Cuban Affairs*; also Cambridge (Mass.) Civic Association

CCAS: Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars

CCC: Civilian Conservation ; also Commodity Credit Corporation

CCD: Conference of the Committee on Disarmament

CCCD: Combating Communicable Childhood Disease (AID program)

CCF: Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (Socialist Party of )

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training

CCM: Committee for Challenges of Society

CCNAA: Coordination Council for North American Affairs

CCP: Chinese

CCPS: Comprehensive Country Programming System

CDA: Office of Career Development and Assignments*; also Cooperation for Development in Africa

CDC: Center for Disease Control (Atlanta)

CDIE: Center for Development Information and Evaluation

CDO: Career Development Officer

CDU: Christian Democratic Union

CEA: Communist Economic Affairs

CELP: Centro de Estudios Laborales del Peru (Labor Study Center of Peru)

CEMA: Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ( - same as CNIEA or )

CEN: Office of Central European Affairs*; also Office of Central American Affairs*

CENESP: National Center for Special Education (Rio de Janeiro, )

CENTCOM: Central Command (headquartered in Tampa, Florida; responsible for Middle East)

CENTO: Central Treaty Organization

CEPE: Ecuadorian Petroleum Agency

CERDS: Charter of Economic and Duties of States

CERP: Combined Economic Reporting Program

CFC: Combined Federal Campaign

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training

CFF: Compensatory Financing Facility

CG: General

CGIL: Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro (Italian General Confederation of Labor)

CHAL: Christian Health Association for

CHARGÉ or CHARGÉ D’Affairs: Person in charge of an embassy or mission temporarily (Chargé, a.i. - ad interim); or permanently if below the rank of Ambassador or Minister (Chargé en titre or en pied)

CHINCOM: China Trade Coordinating Committee

CIA: Central Intelligence Agency

CIEC: Conference on International Economic Cooperation

CIES: Council for International Exchange of Scholars

CILSS: Committee Inter-Etats pour la Lutte Contre la Secheresse au Sahel (Interstate Committee for the Fight Against Drought in the Sahel)

CINCCENT: Commander in Chief, Central Command

CINCEUR: Commander in Chief, European Command

CINCPAC: Commander in Chief, Pacific Command

CINCSOUTH: Commander in Chief, Southern Command

CINCSTRIKE: Commander in Chief, Strike Force

CINCUNC: Commander in Chief, United Nations Command

CINCUNK: Commander in Chief, United Nations

CIO: Chief Information Officer; also Congress of Industrial Organization

CIP: Office of International Communications and Information Policy*

CIRRATUM: The and the Caribbean Common Market, collectively

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training referred to as CIRRATUM

CIS: Countermeasures and Information Security

CISL:

CLASC: Confederación Latino Americana de Sindicalistas Cristianos ( American Federation of Christian Trade Unionists), later CLAT

CLAT: Latin American Federation of Trade Unionists

CLO: Community Liaison Officer (at a foreign service post)

CM: Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs*; also Career Minister

CMB: Compagnie Maritime Belge (Belgian Maritime Company)

CMEA: Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Warsaw Pact - same as CEMA and COMECON)

CNN: Cable News Network

CNO: Comite Nationale Operationelle (National Operational Commission) -

COCOM: Coordinating Committee on Export Controls

COD: Carrier-on-Deck

CODEL: Congressional Delegation (from Washington)

COE: Council of (Strasbourg, )

COM: Commercial Office (at a foreign service post); also Chief of Mission

COMATT: Commercial Attaché (at a foreign service post)

COMECON: Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Warsaw Pact - same as CEMA and CMEA)

COMINFORM: Information Bureau of Communist Parties and Workers

CONDECA: Consejo de Defensa de Centro America (Central American Defense Council)

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training CONS: Consular Section (at a foreign service post)

CONTRAS: Shortened form of the word “contrarevolucionarios” (counterrevolutionaries), the term that the Sandinista regime in used for the guerrilla forces fighting against them)

CORDS: Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support

DIPLAN: An economic advisory agency reporting to the President of

COREPER: Committée des Représentants Permanents (Committee of Permanent Representatives of the Foreign Ministers of Countries)

COS: (CIA) Chief of Station (at a Foreign Service Post)

COSVN: Command Headquarters in South Vietnam; also Central Office of South Vietnam

COW: Committee of the Whole

CP: Command Post

CPA: Commonwealth Parliamentary Association; also Certified Public Accountant

CPAO: Communications Project Action Officer

CPB: Corporation of Public Broadcasting

CPC: Committee on Program and Coordination (United Nations)

CPEC: Connecticut Public Economic Council

CPI: Communist Party of

CPI-M also CPIM: Communist Party of India Marxist

CPO: Communications Program Officer (at a foreign service post); also Community Party Opposition

CPP: Country Program Plan

CPU: Communications Program Unit (at a foreign service post)

CPX: Command Post Exercises

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training

CRED: Center for Research in Economic Development

CROM: Regional Labor Movement of

CRP: China Reporting Program

CRS: Catholic Relief Services; also Compagnie Républicaine de Securité (Republican Security Companies, France); also Congressional Research Service

CSA: Community Services Association

CSB: Central Statistical Board

CSBM's: Confidence and Security Building Measures

CSC: Civil Service Commission

CSCE: Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (now changed to OSCE)

CSDIC: Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Center

CSIR: Council for Industrial and Scientific Research

CSIS: Center for Strategic International Studies (Washington, DC)

CSS: Commodity Stabilization Service

CTAL: Confederacion de Trabajadores de America Latina (Confederation of Latin American Workers)

CTB: Comprehensive Test Ban

CTBT: Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

CTC: Commission on Transnational Corporations (also CTNC)

CTM: Compagnie de Transports Maritimes (Maritime Transport Company); also Compagnie de Transports Marocaines (Moroccan Transport Company); also Confederacion de Trabajadores Mexicanos (Confederation of Mexican Workers)

CTNC: Commission on Transnational Corporations (also CTC)

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training CTP: Christelijke Volkspartij (Christian People’s Party) - Belgium; also Christliche Volkspartei (Christian People’s Party)

CTB: Venezuelan Labor Confederation

CU: Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs*; also Catholic University (Washington, DC)

CV: Curriculum VITAE

CVP: Christelijke Volkspartij (Christian People’s Party, Belgium); Christlichdemokratische Volkspartei (Christian Democratic People’s Party); also Christliche Volkspartei (Christian People’s Party)

CWA: Communication Workers of America

CWT:

CYA: Cover-Your-Ass

D

D Committee: Deputies Committee* (responsible for career ambassadorial selections)

DAC: Development Assistance Committee (of the OECD)

DACOR: Diplomatic and Consular Officers Retired

DAPIT: Development and Application of Intermediate Technology

DAO: Defense Attaché Office (at a foreign service post)

DATT: Defense Attaché (at a foreign service post)

DCM: (at a foreign service post)

DEA: United States Drug Enforcement Agency

DEFATT: Defense Attaché (at a foreign service post)

DFA: Department of Foreign Affairs (of a foreign country)

DFC: Development Finance Company

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training DGB: Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund

DIA: Defense Intelligence Agency

DLF: Development Loan Fund

DMK: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (India)

DOD: Department of Defense

DPA: Demokraticheskaia Partia Angoly (Angolan )

DPM: Draft Presidential Memorandum

DRL: Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor*

DRP: Democratic Republican Party (); also Deutsche Rechtspartei (German Party of the Right, Germany)

DRR: Disparity Reduction Rate

DRS: Democratic Republic of

DS: Bureau of Diplomatic Security*

E

EAP: Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs*

EB: Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs*

EC: European Community (formerly European Communities, successor to EEC); also Office of Economic Analysis*

ECA: Economic Cooperation Administration; also Economic Commission for Africa

ECAFE: Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (United Nations)

ECDC: Economic Cooperation among Developing Countries

ECE: Economic Commission for Europe (United Nations); also Export Council for Europe

ECON: Economic, Economic Section (of an Embassy); also Economic Cone

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training

ECOSOC: Economic and Social Council of the United States or the OAS

ECOWAS: Economic Community of West African States

ECSC: European Coal and Steel Community

ECU: European Currency Unit

EDI: European Defense Initiative

EEA: Office of East European Assistance*

EEC: European Economic Community (predecessor of EC and EU)

EEMP: Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

EEOC: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

EEOCR: Office of Equal Employment Opportunity and Civil Rights*

EER: Employee Evaluation Report

EEZ: Exclusive Economic Zone

EFTA: European Association

EIS: Export Intelligence Service

ELN: Ejército de Liberación Nacional (National Liberation Army - , , , , Peru); also Ejército de Liberación Nicaraguense (Nicaraguan Liberation Army)

EMCF: European Monetary Cooperation Fund

EMS: European Monetary System

EMU: European Monetary Union

EMUA: European Monetary Unit of Account

ENA: Egyptian and North African Affairs*

EOB: Executive Office Building

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training

EOKA: Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston; also Ethniki Organosis Kypriakon Agonos (National Organization of Cypriot Fighters)

EP: Office of Economic Policy*

EPA: Environmental Protection Agency

EPB: Economic Planning Board; also Ejercito Popular Boricua (Puerto Rican Popular Army)

EPC: Economic Planning Committee (of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development - OECD)

EPG: Eminent Persons Group

EPS: Economic Policy Staff*

EPTA: Expanded Program of Technical Assistance

EPZs: Export Processing Zones

ERA: Office of European Union and Regional Affairs*

ERDF: European Regional Development Fund

ERP: European Recovery Program

ERS: Exchange Rate System (of the European Community)

ESCAP: United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (Bangkok)

ESS: Emergency Special Session (United Nations)

ETS: Educational Testing Service

ETUC: European Trade Union Confederation

EU: the European Union

EUA: European Unit of Account

EUC: Office of Analysis for Europe and Canada*

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training EUCOM: European Command

EUR: Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs*

EURATOM: European Atomic Energy Community

EUREK: European-Wide Network for Industrial Research and Development

EVP: Evangelische Volkspartei (Evangelical People’s Party, )

EX: Office of the Executive Director; also Executive Office (at a foreign service post)

EXCOMM: Executive Committee

EXIMBANK: Export-Import Bank

F

FAA: Federal Aviation Agency

FAAS: Foreign Affairs Administrative Support System (at a foreign service post)

FAM: Foreign Affairs Manual

FAO: Food and Agriculture Organization

FARA: Foreign Affairs Recreation Association

FARC: Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia)

FAS: Foreign Agricultural Service

FBI: Federal Bureau of Investigation

FBIS: Foreign Broadcast Information Service

FBO: Foreign Buildings Operations*

FBS: -Based Systems

FCIA: Foreign Credit Insurance Association

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training FDP: Freie Demokratische Partei (Free Democratic Party, Germany); also Freisinnig – Demokratische Partei der Schweiz (Radical Democratic Party of Switzerland); also Frente Democrático Popular (Popular Democratic Front, Peru); also Fuerza Democrática Popular (Popular Democratic Force)

FECOM: Fond Européen de Cooperation Monétaire (European Monetary Cooperation Fund or EMCF)

FFP: Food for

FLN: Frente de Liberación Nacional, Front de Liberation National (National Liberation Front)

FLO: Family Liaison Office*

FLMF: Faibundo Mart Liberation Front (Nicaragua/)

FMP: Chief Financial Officer (Comptroller)*

FMS: Foreign Military Sales

FNLA: Frente Nacional de Libertacao de ; also Front National de Liberation de L'Angola (Angolan National Liberation Front)

FOA: Foreign Operations Administrations (economic assistance)

FODAG: Food and Agriculture

FOL: Frente Obrero de Liberacion (Worker’s Liberation Front)

FRETILIN: Revolutionary Front for the Independence of

FRG: Federal Republic of Germany

FS: Foreign Service

FSGB: Foreign Service Grievance Board

FSI: Foreign Service Institute*

FSL: Foreign Service Local (person hired locally by a foreign service post)

FSN: Foreign Service National (a local employee of a foreign service post)

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training FSO: Foreign Service Officer

FSR: Foreign Service Reserve (Officer)

FSS: Foreign Service Staff (Officer)

FSSO: Foreign Service Staff Officer

FTE: Full Time Equivalent (of a fully-funded United States government position)

FTZ: Foreign Trade Zone

FUD: Friends of Urban Development

FYROM: Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

G

G-7: Industrial Countries (Canada, France, Germany, , , , United States)

G-8: G-7 plus

G-77:

GAB: General Agreements to Borrow

GAO: Government Accounting Office

GATT: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

GDP: Gross Domestic Product

GDR: German Democratic Republic

GGI: Office of the Geographer and Global Issues*

GLCM: Ground-Launched Cruise Missile

GLOBE: Global Learning and Observation to Benefit the Environment

GLOP: Globalisation Program (a program to insure that United States Foreign Service personnel would serve in several regions of the world)

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training

GNP: Gross National Product

GPS: Generalized Preference Scheme

GSO: General Services Office or General Services Officer (at a foreign service post)

GSP: General System of Preferences

GTI: Office of , , and Affairs*

GVN: Government of Vietnam

GWU: George Washington University

H

H: Bureau of Legislative Affairs*

HHS: Department of Health and Human Services

HICOG: Allied High Commission on Germany

I

IAA: Inter-American Affairs

IADB: Inter American Development Bank; also Inter American Defense Board

IAEA: International Atomic Energy Agency

IAI: Office of Israel and Arab-Israeli Affairs*

IBRD: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (The )

IC: Office of Intelligence Coordination*

ICA: International Commodity Agreement; also International Cooperation Administration; also United States International Communications Agency (former name of USIA)

ICAO: International Civil Aviation Organization

ICAF: Industrial College of the Armed Forces

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training

ICBM: Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

ICEM: International Committee for European Migration

ICIDI: Independent Commission on International Development Issues

ICITAP: International Criminal Investigative Training and Assistance Program

ICJ: International Court of Justice (at )

ICOMOS: International Council of Monuments and Sites

ICNT: Informal Composite Negotiating Text

ICRISAT: International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics - India

ICSC: International Civil Service Commission

IDA: International Development Association

IDB: International Development Bank

IDC: Industrial Development Corporation

IDCA: International Development Cooperation Administration

IDS: International Development Strategy

IDF: International Development Fund

IEA: International Energy Agency

IEE: Institute D'Ecologie Europeenne (European Ecology Institute)

IFAD: International Fund for Agricultural Development

IFC: International Finance Corporation

IFD: Office of International Finance and Development*

IFI: International Financial Institution

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training IGGI: Intergovernmental Group for

IGO: Intergovernmental Organization

IIAA: Imperial Iranian Army Aviation Corps; also Institute of Inter-American Affairs (economic and technical assistance agency)

IIF: Institute for International Finance

IL: Office of Intelligence Liaison*

ILO: International Labor Organization (United Nations)

ILS: Instrument Landing System

IMCO: Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization (United Nations)

IMET: International Military Education and Training

IMF: International Monetary Fund

IMT: Information Management Training

INF: Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces

INFCE: International Fuel Cycle Evaluation

INL: Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs*

INR: Bureau of Intelligence and Research*

INS: Immigration and Naturalization Service; also Office of India, , , , Affairs*

IO: Bureau of International Organization Affairs*; also Information Officer (at a foreign service post)

IPTF: International Police Task Force

IPU: International Parliamentary Union

IRA: Individual Retirement Account; Irish Republican Army

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training IRB: International Resources Bank

IRC: International Red Cross

IRE: Office of Intelligence Resources*

IRI: Institut des Relations Internationales, Belgium

IRRI: International Rice Research Institute

IRS: Internal Revenue Service

ISA: International Security Agency (at the Pentagon); also International Seabed Authority

ISAC: International Scientific Agricultural Council

ISM: Information Systems Manager

ISTC: Institute for Scientific and Technological Cooperation

ITO: International Trade Organization

ITT: International Telegraph & Telegraph Corporation

ITU: International Telegraphic Union

IV: Immigrant Visa

IVIS: Visa Information Lookout System

J

JCS: Joint Chiefs of Staff

JCTF: Joint Combined Task Force

JUSMAAG: Joint United States Military Assistance Advisory Group (in a foreign country)

JUSMAG: Joint United States Military Assistance Group (in a foreign country)

JUSMAT: Joint United States Military Advisory Team

JUSPAO: Joint United States Public Affairs Office (Vietnam)

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training

K

KAL: Korean Airlines

KAPPI: Kesatuen Aksi Permuda Indonesia (Indonesian Youth and Students Action Front)

KATUSA: South Korean Augmentation to United States Army

KCIA: South Korean Central Intelligence Agency (later, Agency for Planning)

KGB: Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (State Security Committee of the USSR)

KIA: Killed in Action

KLM: Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (Royal Dutch Airlines)

KRO: Katholieke Radio Omroep (Dutch Catholic Broadcasting Association); also Section of the OGPU ()

L

L: Office of the Legal Adviser*

LCM: Landing Craft, Mechanised

LDCs: Less Developed Countries

LDP: Liberal Democratic Party (Germany, Japan); also Language Designated Position (at a Foreign Service post)

LEGATT: Legal Attaché (FBI office, at a Foreign Service post)

LICs: Low Income Countries

LIMDIS: Limited Distribution

LLDCs: Least Developed Countries

LLGDS: Landlocked and Geographically Disadvantaged States

LOMé: A series of economic cooperation conventions between Western Europe and former

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training European territories in Africa, the Pacific and the Caribbean

LOS: Law of the Sea

LRDG: Long Range Desert Group

LRTNF: Long-Range Theater Nuclear Forces

LSB: Loyalty Security Board

LSD: Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (drug)

LST: Landing Ship Tank

LSU: Labor Service Unit; also Liberalsoziale Union (Liberal Social Union, Germany)

LTDP: Long Term Defense Program

M

MAAG: Military Assistance Advisory Group

MAC: Military Assistance Command

MACV: Military Assistance Command Vietnam

MAD: Mutual Assured Destruction

MAFF: Ministry of Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries (Japan)

MAP: Military Assistance Program

MAPS: Multiple Aiming Point System

MBFR: Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions

MC: Minister-Counselor

MCA: Monetary Compensatory Amount

MED: Office of Medical Services*

MEDO: Medical Officer

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training

MEMCON: Memorandum of Conversation

MEX: Office of Mexican Affairs*

MFA: Multifiber Agreement; also Ministry of Foreign Affairs

MFN: Most Favored

MFR: Mutual Force Reduction

MIA: Missing in Action

MIC: Middle Income Country

MIG: Russian or Soviet aircraft designed by Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan and M. I. Gurevich

MILATT: Military Attaché (at a Foreign Service post)

MINEX: Commodity stabilization scheme signed in the Lome III Convention in 1984 in reference to the STABEX export stabilization scheme initially signed in the Lome Convention of 1975

MIRV: Multiple Independent Reentry Vehicle

MITI: Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Japan)

MLA: Office of Multilateral Affairs*

MLF: Multilateral Force; also Multilateral Fleet

MMM: Maintenance & Material Management

MNCs: Multinational Corporations

MNEs: Multinational Enterprises

MNR: Milicias Nacionales Revolucionarias (National Revolutionary Militias, ); also Mongolian People’s Republic; also Mouvement National de la Revolution (National Revolutionary Movement, Congo); also Movimiento Nacional Reformista (National Reform Movement, ); also Movimiento Nacional Revolucionario (National Revolutionary Movement, ); also Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (National Revolutionary Movement, Bolivia); also National Resistance.

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training

MOPH: Military Order of the Purple Heart

MP: Military Police; also Minister Plenipotentiary

MPC: Military Payment Certificate (United States military currency); also Maharashtra Prajantra Congress (Muharashtra Progressive Congress, India); also Mosul Petroleum Company; Mysore Power Corporation (India); also Mouvement Progressive Congolais (Progressive Congolese Movement); also Movimiento Popular Cristiano (Popular Christian Movement, Bolivia)

MPLA: Malaysian People’s Liberation Army, Movimento Popular de Liberaçáo dae Angola (Angolan Popular Liberation Movement)

MPP: Mission Program Plan (at a Foreign Service Post)

MPS: Multiple Protective Shelters

MSA: Most Seriously Affected; also Mutual Security Agency (economic assistance)

MTI: Mouvement de Tendance Islamique (Islamic Trend Movement, ); also Military Training Instructor

MTN: Multilateral Trade

MUREFAAMCE: Mutual Reduction of Forces and Armaments and Associated Measures in Central Europe

MX: Mobil Experimental Missile

N

NACB: Nonaligned Coordinating Bureau

NAFTA: North American Free Trade Area or Agreement

NAM: Nonaligned Movement; also National Association of Manufacturers

NAMI: NATO Military Committee

NASA: National Aeronautical and Space Administration

NATCAP: National Technical Cooperation Assistance Plan

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training

NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NAVELEX: Naval Electronic Systems Command

NB: Office of Nordic and Baltic Affairs*

NCE: Office of North Central European Affairs*

NDU: National Defense University

NEA: Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs*

NEFA: New European Fighter Aircraft

NEFO: New Emergent Forces

NESA: Office of Analysis for Near and South Asia*

NFATC: National Foreign Affairs Training Center (FSI)

NFP: Party (Japan)

NGO: Nongovernmental Organization

NHK: Nippon Hoso Kyokai (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)

NIAC: National Information & Analysis Center; also Naval Intelligence Automation Center

NIC: Newly Industrialized Country; also National Industrial Council

NICS: National Intelligence Computer System; also NATO Integrated Communications System

NID: National Intelligence Officer

NIE: National Intelligence Estimate

NIEO: New International Economic Order

NIMBY: Not In My Backyard

NIS: National Intelligence Survey; also New Independent States; also Naval Intelligence

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Service

NIV: Non-Immigrant Visa

NLRB: National Labor Reporting Board

NMR: National Movement for Renewal; also News Media Representative; also Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

NODEX: New Over the Beach Discharge Exercise

NODIS: No Distribution

NORAD: North American Air Defense

NORAID: Irish Northern Aid

NPG: Nuclear Planning Group

NPT: Non-Proliferation Treaty

NRC: Nuclear Regulatory Commission

NRM: National Resistance Movement ()

NROTC: National Reserve Officers Training Corps

NSAM: National Security Action Memorandum

NSC: National Security Council

NSDD: National Security Decision Directive

NSSM: National Security Study Memorandum

NSTO: New Scientific and Technological Order

NTBs: Non-Tarriff Barriers

NTU: New Threat Upgrade

NVA: Nationale Volksarmee (National People’s Army, East Germany); also Vietnam People’s Army (use VPA, North Vietnam)

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training

NWA: National College (Washington, DC)

NWIO: New World Information Order

NWU: National Workers Union

O

OAPEC: Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries

OAS: Organization of American States

OAU: Organization of African Unity

OBC: Overseas Briefing Center*

OCB: Operations Coordination Board

OCD: Office of Civilian Defense

OCO: Operational Capabilities Objective; also Operational Contracting Officer

OCS: Overseas Citizens Services; also (United States military) Officer Candidate School

ODA: Official Development Assistance

ODC: Overseas Development Council; also Office of Defense Cooperation; also Office Douanier Congolais (Congolese Customs Office)

OEC: Organization for Economic Cooperation; also Organisation Européenne du Charbon (European Coal Organisation)

OECD: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

OECS: Organization of Eastern Caribbean States

OEEC: Organization for European Economic Cooperation

OES: Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs*

OFAR: Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training

OFD: Office of Foreign Disasters*

OFDA: Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (of USAID)

OFM: Office of Foreign Missions*

OIA: Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs* (under Nelson Rockefeller)

OIC: Organization of the Islamic Conference; also Office of Information and Cultural Affairs*; also Office of International Conferences*; also Officer-in-Charge

OICI: Opportunities in Industrialization Center International

OIG: Office of the Inspector General*

OIR: Office of Intelligence Research*; also Organisation Internationale pour les Réfugiés (International Organisation)

OMA: Orderly Marketing Agreement

OMGUS: Office of Military Government (United States Zone of Occupation [Germany])

OMT: Office of Management Training*

OPA: Office of Price Administration (World War II United States agency)

OPC: Own Produce Consumed

OPEC: Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

OPIC: Overseas Private Investment Corporation

OPM: Office of Personnel Management*

OPR: Operations

ORIT: Operational Readiness Inspection Test

ORS: Obligated Reserve Section

ORSTOM: French Overseas Scientific and Technical Research Office

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training ORT: Oral Rehydration Therapy; Organization for Rehabilitation and Training

OSARC: Office of Southern African Regional Cooperation (of USAID)

OSCE: Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (successor to CSCE)

OSD: Office of the Secretary of Defense; also Overseas Duty

OSI: Office of Special Investigations

OSR: Optical Scanning Recognition

OSS: Office of Strategic Services

P

PA: Bureau of Public Affairs and Policy*

PAA: Pan American Airways

PAB: Office of , , Affairs*

PAC: Pan-African Congress

PAHO: Pan American Health Organization

PAO: Public Affairs Office or Officer (at a Foreign Service post)

PASEX: Passing Exercise (with foreign naval and/or air units)

PCAD: Poste de Commandement d'Artilleries Divisionnaire (Artillery Division Command Post)

PCT: Patent Cooperation Treaty

PCV: Volunteer

PD: Presidential Directive

PDF: People’s Defense Force ()

PER: Bureau of Personnel*

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training PFLP: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

PFP: Partnership for Peace (NATO)

PIA: Office of Pacific Island Affairs*

PIMBS: Office of Philippine, Indonesia, , , and Singapore Affairs*

PL 480: Public Law 480 ()

PLO: Palestine Liberation Organization

PLPF: Portuguese Front

PM: Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs (also called POL-MIL)*

PNC: People’s National Congress

PNET: Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty

PNG:

POL: Political Cone; Political Officer or Political Section (also called PolSec)

POLAD: Political Advisor (at a Foreign Service post)

POLISARIO: Popular Front for the Liberation of Saquia el Hamra and Rio del Oro (Western Sahara)

PPBS: Planning, Programming, & Budgeting System

PPC: Parti Populaire Congolais (Congolese Popular Party); also Parti Progressiste Congolais (Congolese Progressive Party); also Partido Popular Catalá (Catalan People’s Party); also Partido Popular Cristiano (Christian Popular Party, Peru, Argentina); also Partido Progresista Cristiano (Progressive Christian Party, ); also Partita Populare Corsu (Corsican Popular Party)

PPG: Policy Planning Group

PPT: Services*

PQLI: Physical Quality of Life Index

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training PRD: Partido de la Revolucion Democrática (Democratic Revolution Party, Mexico)

PRG: People’s Revolutionary Government (Granada); also Program Review Group (of USAID)

PRI: Partido Revolucionario Institucional (Institutional Revolutionary Party)

PRM: Bureau of Population, and Migration; also Presidential Review Memorandum

PSA: Parti Socialiste Africain (African Socialist Party); also Parti Solidaire Africain (Solidarity African Party); also Partido Socialista de Andalusia (Socialist Party of Andalucia, Spain); also Partido Socialista Aponte (Bolivia); also Partido Socialista de Aragón (Socialist Party of Aragon, Spain); also Partido Socialista de Argentina (Argentine Socialist Party); People’s Supreme Assembly; also Port of Singapore Authority; Presidential Support Aircraft; also Public Service Announcement

PTT: Pasokan Pertahanan Tempatan (Local Defense Group, Malaysia); Politikai Tanacskozo Testulet (Political Consultative Commission, Warsaw Pact); also Post, Telegraph and Telephone

PVO: Private Voluntary Organization

PVV: Partij voor Vrijheiden Vooruitgang ( and , Belgium)

PWD: Public Work Department

PX: Post Exchange

R

RA: Office of Regional Affairs*

RAF: Royal Air Force (United Kingdom)

RAMC: Regional Administrative Management Center (at a Foreign Service post)

RBP: Restrictive Business Practices

RCM: Radar/Radio Countermeasures; also Regional Communications Manager

REA: Office of Analysis for Russia and Eurasia*

REDSO: Regional Economic Development Services Officer

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training

REE: Comité Européen de Recontruction Économique Européenne (European Economic Reconstruction Committee)

REPTO: Reporting Officer

RFC: Reconstruction Finance Corporation

RFE: Radio Free Europe

RIAS: Research Institute for Advanced Studies; also Rundfunk im Amerikanischen Sektor (Radio in the American Sector, Berlin)

RIF: Reduction in Force

RL: Radio

ROCAP: Regional Office for Central America and (AID, located in Guatemala)

ROK: Republic of Korea

RPB: Rassemblement Populaire de (Popular Rally of Burundi); also Republica Populara Bulgara (Bulgarian People’s Republic); also République Populaire du (Benin People’s Republic)

RPE: European Office of Regional Political and Economical Affairs; also Registered Professional Engineer

RPG: Rocket-Propelled Grenade

RPM: Office of Regional, Political and Security Issues*

RPP: Office of Resources, Plans and Policy*

RRA: Refugee Relief Act

RSNT: Revised Single Negotiating Text

RSB: Office of Regional and Security Policy Affairs*

RSO: Regional Security Officer (at a Foreign Service post)

RSS: Rok Stranickeho Skoleni (Party Indoctrination Year, Czechoslovakia)

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training

RUS: Office of Russian Affairs*

RV: Radikale Venstre (Radical , ); Recreational Vehicle; also Rod Valgallianse (Red , )

S

SA: Bureau of South Asian Affairs*

SACLANT: Supreme Allied Command, Atlantic

SACSA: Special Assistant for Counter-Insurgency and Special Activities

SADCC: Southern African Development Coordination Conference

SADF: South African Defense Forces

SAE: Secretary’s Office on Atomic Energy*

SAF: Sultan’s Armed Forces [Oman]

SAIS: School of Advanced International Studies (of Johns’ Hopkins University)

SALT: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

SAPRC: Security Assistance Review Committee

SAS: Scandinavian Air System; also School of Area Studies*; also Special Air Service (United Kingdom)

SASP: Southern African Student Program

SAVAK: Sazman-e Ettela'At va Amniyat-e Keshvar (National Intelligence and Security Organization, Iran)

SCA: Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs*; also Service Contract Act; also Service Cryptologic Agency; also Shipping Control Authority; also Southern Communications Area

SCAP: Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers

SCC: Special Coordination Committee

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training SCE: Office of South Central European Affairs*

SCFP: Sri Lanka Freedom Party

SCI: Sensitive Compartmented Intelligence; also Southern Cross International (United Kingdom)

SCNR: Scientific Committee of National Representatives

SDAR: Sahara Democratic Arab Republic

SDI: Strategic Defense Initiative

SDR: Special Drawing Right

SE: Office of Southern European Affairs*

SEATO: South East Asia Treaty Organization

SED: Socialist Unity Party

SEIU: Service Employees' International Union

SERI: Solar Energy Research Institute

SHAEF: Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force

SHAFR: Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations

SHAPE: Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe

SIG: Senior Interdepartmental Group; also Special Interest Group

SKF: Sosialistiko Kinima Foititon (Student Socialist Movement, Greece)

SLBM: Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile

SLS: School of Language Studies*

SNCC: Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

SNIE: Special National Intelligence Estimate

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training SNT: Single Negotiating Text

SOA: Special Operating Agency; also Special Operations Aircraft; also Statement of Agreement; also Strategic Offensive Arms

SOP: Standard Operating Procedure

SOUTHCOM: Southern Command

SPAS: School of Professional and Area Studies (of the Foreign Service Institute)

SPD: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschland (German Social Democratic Party)

SPU: Signal Processing Unit

SRF: Selected Reserve Force (Naval); also Special Reporting Facility; also Ship Repair Facility

SSA: United States Social Security Administration; also Security Supporting Assistance

SSOD: Special Session on Disarmament

STABEX: Stabilisation des Exports (export stabilization scheme)

STADIS: State Department Distribution Only

START: Strategic Arms Reduction Talks

SUDENE: Superintendencia do Desenvolvimento do Nordeste (Superintendency for Development of the Northeast, Brazil)

SWAPO: South West Africa People’s Organization

SY: Bureau of Security Affairs*

T

TC: Office of Coordination*

TCA: Technical Cooperation Administration; also Trans-Canada Airlines

TCDC: Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training TCM: Tactical Cruise Missile; also Technical Cooperation Mission

TCN: Third Country National Employee (at a Foreign Service post)

TDA: Agency; also Trade and Development Act

TDF: Transborder Data Flows

TDP: Trade & Development Program

TDY: Temporary Duty

TEC: Teritorijski Evakuacitki Center (Territorial Evacuation Center); also Tanganyika

TGIF: Thank God It’s Friday

TIAA-CREF: Retirement system mainly for educators set up under the Carnegie Corporation

TIC: Time in Class

TNC: Office of Analysis for Terrorism, Narcotics and Crime; also Transnational Corporation

TNF: Theater Nuclear Forces

TPM: Trigger Price Mechanism

TPP: Office of Trade, Policy and Programs*

TRA: Office of Transportation Affairs*

TRW: Tactical Reconnaissance Wing

TTBT: Threshold Test Ban Treaty

TWEP: Terminate With Extreme Prejudice

TWU: Textile Workers Union

U

UAE:

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training UAF: Uganda Air Force

UAR: United Arab Republic

UBI: Office of United Kingdom, Benelux, and Affairs*

UCLA: University of California at Los Angeles

UCR: Unión de Campesinos Revolucionarios (Revolutionary Peasants Union, El Salvador); also Unión Cívica Radical (Radical , Argentina, Colombia); also Unión Cívica Revolucionaria (Revolutionary Civic Union, )

UDI: Unilateral Declaration of Independence; also Unión Democrática Independiente (Independent Democratic Union); also Unión Democrática de Izquierda (Leftist Democratic Union); also Unión Dominicana de Independientes (Dominican Union of Independants)

UGTM: Union Generale des Travailleurs Marocains (Moroccan General Work Union)

UGTT: Union Général Tunisienne du Travail (Tunisian General Work Union)

UN: United Nations

UNCAST: United Nations Conference on the Application of Science and Technology for the Benefit of the Less Developed Areas

UNCLOS: United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea

UNCSTD: United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development

UNCTAD: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

UNDP: United Nations Development Programme

UNECA: United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

UNEF: United Nations Emergency Forces

UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme

UNFAO: United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization

UNGA: United Nations General Assembly

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

UNHCR: United Nations for Refugees

UNHRC: United Nations Human Rights Council

UNICEF: United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund

UNIDO: United Nations Industrial Development Organization

UNIFIL: United Nations International Force in Lebanon

UNIP: United National Independence Party ( and )

UNITA: National Union for the Total Independence of Angola

UNITAR: United Nations Institute for Training and Research

UNLA: Ugandan National Liberation Army

UNPICPUNE: United Nations Conference for the Promotion of International Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy

UNRRA: United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

UNSC: United Nations Security Council

UNRWA: United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestine Refugees in the

UNVIE: Office of the United Nations

UPC: Unit Passport Clerk

USA: United States Army

USACOM: United States Atlantic Command

USAF:

USAFE: United States Air Forces in Europe

USAID: United States Agency for International Development

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training USAREUR: United States Army, Europe

USCG: United States Coast Guard

USDA: United States Department of Agriculture

USEC: United States Mission to the European Communities (later USEU)

USEU: United States Mission to the European Union (formerly USEC)

USG: United States Government

USIA: United States Information Agency

USIS: United States Information Service (USIA overseas)

USN: United States Navy

USNATO: United States Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

USNAVEUR: United States Navy, Europe

USOAS: United States Mission to the Organization of American States

USOECD: United States Mission to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

USOM: United States Operations Mission (economic assistance)

USRO: UNESCO Subregional Office; also United States Regional Office (at a Foreign Service post)

USSR: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

USTR: United States Trade Representative’s Office

USUN: United States Mission to the United Nations

USUNVIE: United States Mission to the Vienna Office of the United Nations

V

VA: Veterans Administration

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training

VAT: Value-Added Tax

VER: Voluntary Export Restraints

VJ: Victory in Japan (VJ Day)

VMI: Virginia Military Institute

VO: Visa Office*

VOA:

VOLAG: Voluntary Agency

VRA: Voluntary Restraint Agreement

VU: Flemish Nationalists Party

W

W3: Working Party Three

WARC: World Administrative Radio Conference

WASAG: Washington Action Group

WE: Office of Western European Affairs

WEEKA: Weekly Reporting (from Foreign Service posts)

WHO: World Health Organization

WID: Weekly Intelligence Digest

WIPO: World Intellectual Property Organization

WMO: World Meteorological Organization

WPA: Work Progress Administration

WPB: War Production Board

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training WSAG: Washington Special Action Group

WST: Office of Western Slavic and Moldovan Affairs*

WTDR: World Trade Directory Report

WTO:

WWF: World Wildlife Fund

X

Y

YFU: Youth for America

YIPSEL: Young People’s Socialist League

Z

ZANU: African National Union

ZAPU: Zimbabwe African People’s Union

ZOA: Zionist Organization of America

The Library of Congress | American Memory Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training